Summer pre k: 240 Summer Preschool Theme ideas

40 Fun and Creative Summer Preschool Activities

This collection of hands-on summer preschool activities will help strengthen core literacy, numeracy, science, and art skills while giving kids plenty of opportunities to celebrate summer in all its colorful glory!

1. Bubble Art 

Why not put a twist on a classic summer craft by turning foamy bubbles into colorful art?

Learn more: Fun learning for kids

2. Feed The Shark Color and Shape Matching 

This beach theme printable is a fun and hands-on way to practice identifying colors and shapes.

Learn more: Miniature Masterminds

3. Bubbly Ball Pit 

There’s nothing simpler than throwing together some colorful plastic balls and bubble solution to beat the summer heat.

Learn more: My Small Potatoes

4. Sand and Ocean Sensory Activity 

Skip the beach trip for this ocean-themed sensory table activity. It also makes for a great opportunity to discuss ocean animals and their habitat.

Learn more: Fun Learning for Kids

5. Make Sponge Bombs

This simple activity repurposes sponges for hours of summer fun. Unlike water balloons, they can be reused for multiple epic water battles.

Learn more: Inner Child Fun Media

6. Make Some Juicy Watermelon Scented Slime

This watermelon-scented slime, complete with pom-pom “seeds”, smells just like summer and makes for great motor activity fun.

Learn more: Coffee Cups and Crayons

7. Paper Bag Ice Cream Cone Sculpture

Kids will have hours of fun decorating these ice cream cones with dry beans, rice, or pasta disguised as hot fudge, sprinkles, and melted marshmallows.

Learn more: The Crafty Mom

8. Pool Noodle Boats 

Why not reuse pool noodles to create these adorable boats? Your preschooler won’t have to wait for a lake trip to go sailing.

Learn more: The Best Ideas for Kids

9. Seashell Painting Outdoor Activity

Kids will be delighted to go on an outdoor hunt for seashells to paint with bright summer colors. This nature-based activity is also a great way to develop fine motor skills.

Learn more: Momtessori Life

10. Printable Summer Coloring Pages

Kids are sure to enjoy adding their own creative flair to images of beaches, flowers, ice cream, and all sorts of summertime fun.

Learn more: The Spruce Crafts

11. Egg and Spoon Race Activity for Kids

This fun summer activity is a fantastic opportunity to develop hand-eye coordination and balancing skills. Kids can paint their own eggs for an extra dose of fun before racing them across the finish line.

Learn more: My Bored Toddler

12. Have a Water Balloon Fight 

This collection of water balloon game ideas will keep kids cool in the summer heat while giving them plenty of physical exercises.

Learn more: Monkey Joes

13. Erupting Ice Chalk

This fun activity doesn’t require a long material list, but two main ingredients; chalk and paint. Kids will love watching the chalk fizzle and dissolve!

Learn more: Learn, Play, Imagine

14. Flip Flops Pattern and Color Matching

Long summer days are the perfect time to reinforce literacy and math concepts. Kids can count by two or color the flip-flops by size or by sight words.

Learn more: Miniature Masterminds

15. Fireworks Math Activity

This festive summer activity is a great way to develop numeracy, counting, and correspondence skills.

Learn more: Montessori for the Heart

16. Summer Book Read-Aloud

This rhyming summer read-aloud book is full of simple, repeating phrases and plenty of sight words, making it an easy choice for reinforcing literacy skills.

Learn more: Stories For Kids

17. Watermelon Counting Cards

This fun counting game makes for a great summer learning activity. All you need is some card stock and black playdough and you’re ready to go!

Learn more: Modern Preschool

18. Sand Vinegar Volcano 

This beloved activity is a great way to infuse a family beach trip with some explosive fun! Kids are sure to love watching the sand erupt.

Learn more: Growing a Jeweled Rose

19. Summer Songs for Kids

This collection of summer songs includes circle time songs, chants, and plenty of room for students to add their own creative dance moves.

Learn more: Let’s Play Music

20. Water Activities for Kids 

What better way to cool down from the summer heat than with water games? This challenging water obstacle course will keep kids engaged for hours of outdoor fun.

Learn more: Meaningful Mama

21.  Go on a Bug Scavenger Hunt

Who doesn’t love a good scavenger hunt? This printable guide to all sorts of different bugs including worms and slugs is sure to be a hit with your young learner.

Learn more: Preschool Powol Packets

22. Play With Water Beads

From water bead scooping, and funneling to sorting, this resource is full of sensory table ideas kids will love.

Learn more: Mrs. Plemon’s Kindergarten

23. Blow Giant Bubbles with DIY Bubble Wands

After twisting the pipe cleaner into hearts, circles, or any shape of their choice, kids can attach beads to personalize their creations and blow bubbles all summer long!

Learn more: What Do We Do All Day

24. Make a Sand Handprint

Preserving your child’s hand or footprint makes a heartwarming keepsake you will both cherish for years to come.

Learn more: Crafting a Green World

25. Summer Reading Kit

Summer is the perfect time to build a daily reading habit. This printable kit includes a reading certificate and journal. It’s a wonderful way to sharpen the reading skills kids have developed during the school year while giving them a chance to summarize their stories with drawings.

Learn more: Kids Activities

26. Make Some Ice Cream 

Preschoolers will love making their own ice cream in a bag. Why not let them choose their own chopped-up fruit to enhance the simple vanilla recipe.

Learn more: Happy Toddler Club

27. Alphabet Tracing Popsicles

This fun popsicle activity gives kids plenty of upper and lowercase letter printing practice. You could also challenge them to put the popsicles in alphabetical order as an extension activity.

Learn more: Preschool Play and Learn

28. Sidewalk Chalk Paint

Sidewalk chalk drawing is a cherished summer memory for many. With a few simple ingredients, you can make your own chalk for hours of neighborhood fun.

Learn more: My Home Based Life

29. Frozen Paint Outdoor Activity

Throw together some washable paint, an ice cube tray, craft sticks, and painting paper and you’re good to go. Kids are sure to enjoy experimenting with this frozen twist on traditional painting.

Learn more: Busy Toddler

30. Color by Code Summer Printable Set

Coloring by code is a great way to practice following instructions while building literacy and numeracy skills at once.

Learn more: Modern Preschool

31. Make an Outdoor Water Wall

Early Learning Programs

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• Early Learning Services
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Early childhood includes the years of birth to age 8. During this time, supportive relationships and early learning experiences provide a strong foundation for emerging social, emotional, language, cognitive and physical skills. These experiences begin at home and are supported through a ranges of services. Collective efforts among families, early learning programs, and communities play a vital role in supporting the learning and development of young children.

Early investments in families and learners is recognized in Minnesota’s Ten Commitments to Equity. By starting early, we can provide each student with increased access to high-quality learning experiences where each student realizes positive outcomes.
 
Minnesota provides a range of early learning programs and services for families and children aged birth to kindergarten. The array of programs focus on supporting the healthy development of the “whole child” by offering opportunities for both families and children to enhance their learning and development, achieve positive outcomes for children, and support their transition to kindergarten. These programs are often a child and family’s first opportunity to engage with the school system, and therefore, set an important tone for future school success. Programs include: Early Childhood Family Education, Early Learning Scholarships, Early Childhood Screening, Head Start and Early Head Start, Help Me Grow, Infant Toddler Intervention and Preschool Special Education, School Readiness Program, as well as Voluntary Prekindergarten and School Readiness Plus. The programs are offered through local districts and charter schools, sometimes in partnership with Head Start or community child care, and supported by Minnesota’s Department of Education Early Learning Services Division. Find more specific information about each program under Early Learning Programs on the left navigation menu.

The benefits of investing in quality early childhood education can be sustained through a well-aligned, high-quality prekindergarten through grade three (P3) education. Research indicates that, in addition to the educational benefits to children attending high-quality programs, there are several benefits to the community and our state. These benefits include: narrowing the achievement gap; a reduction in the need for special education and remediation; better health outcomes; reduced need for social services and lower criminal justice costs; and increased self-sufficiency and productivity among families.

See the Department of Human Services for information about community child care programs that they license and support.

Summer Preschool Funding

The purpose of Summer Preschool Funding is to support children before they enter kindergarten, and specifically those who have experienced life circumstances that may have prevented them from being able to attend a high-quality early childhood program due to COVID-19.
In summer 2021, $20 million in Summer Preschool Funds were awarded to school districts, charter schools, Head Start programs, child care centers, and licensed family child care providers. Programs were required to have a Parent Aware Three- or Four-Star rating to be eligible.

If programs did not spend their full allocation in summer 2021, they were allowed to roll remaining funds forward to provide summer programming in summer 2022.

View the list of Summer Preschool Funded Programs.
 
Guidance:

• Summer Preschool Funding Frequently Asked Questions
• Summer Preschool Webinar Slides – School District, Charter School, Head Start
• Summer Preschool Webinar Slides – Child Care
• Summer Preschool 2022 Roll Forward Webinar Slides – February 2022

Resources for Funded Programs:

• Family Information Data Release Notice
• Summer Preschool Family Flyer
• Summer Preschool Family Flyer – Amharic
• Summer Preschool Family Flyer – Hmong
• Summer Preschool Family Flyer – Karen
• Summer Preschool Family Flyer – Oromo
• Summer Preschool Family Flyer – Russian
• Summer Preschool Family Flyer – Simplified Chinese
• Summer Preschool Family Flyer – Somali
• Summer Preschool Family Flyer – Spanish
• Summer Preschool Family Flyer – Vietnamese

Informed Consent Form

• Informed Consent Form for Summer Preschool
• Informed Consent Form for Summer Preschool – Amharic
• Informed Consent Form for Summer Preschool – Hmong
• Informed Consent Form for Summer Preschool – Karen
• Informed Consent Form for Summer Preschool – Oromo
• Informed Consent Form for Summer Preschool – Russian
• Informed Consent Form for Summer Preschool – Simplified Chinese
• Informed Consent Form for Summer Preschool – Somali
• Informed Consent Form for Summer Preschool – Spanish
• Informed Consent Form for Summer Preschool – Vietnamese

Contact MDE. [email protected] with questions.

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• Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE)

Summer school on modern technologies in plant breeding for undergraduate students

Summer school on modern technologies in plant breeding for undergraduate students

development in the field of plant breeding, including admission to the magistracy and postgraduate studies.

Meet the experts, as well as other participants and employees of breeding companies Timiryazev!

Students are selected by experts based on the following requirements:

Formal criteria

You must be a 2nd or 3rd year undergraduate student in (applied) biology, biotechnology, crop production, horticulture and agronomy

Motivational letter

Yes, you will need this skill 🙂 you about yourself, about your scientific and future professional interests in the field of plant breeding. Additional points will be awarded if you write your opinion and vision of the situation in the plant breeding and seed industry: what trends, what players, what technologies are used. nine0052 Do not forget to indicate the university, faculty and department!

English is a bonus!

All classes and lectures within the school will be held in Russian (or with translation), but we want to motivate those who study a foreign language, because this is the main key to valuable information! Therefore, if you know English and write a motivation letter in it, you will be additionally awarded 2 points!

Selection process:

Start of accepting applications
April 25, 2022

We are waiting for your motivational letters to the address
l. [email protected]

Deadline for accepting applications May 8, 2022

2022

Group arrival
June 26, 2022

Let’s go! Attention!

Still have questions?

Ask the Manager of the Educational and Scientific Center for Plant Biotechnology

Lyubimova Larisa Alexandrovna
e-mail: [email protected]
phone: 89856856347

Youth summer school | Russian Geographical Society

The Summer School of the Russian Geographical Society is a communication platform for the exchange of experience and the transfer of knowledge about the current state of geographical science to young professionals, contributing to the activation of their participation in research and social activities.

Participants of the Summer School learn firsthand about the latest discoveries in the field of geography, get a unique opportunity to meet famous lecturers, outstanding researchers, famous travelers. They discuss topical issues of geography and geoecology, learn about the proper organization of scientific research and gain practical skills in speaking, conducting discussions and disputes. Moreover, Summer School students will learn how science develops under the influence of social order. nine0003

The Summer School program is aimed at expanding personal professional and business ties, provides an opportunity to present and promote one’s own projects, participate in joint projects, stimulate the search for new ideas.

Lecturers of the School of the Russian Geographical Society are leading theoreticians and practitioners in the field of physical, economic, social geography, psychologists, methodologists, representatives of government agencies and institutions, travelers, famous personalities. nine0003

The Scientific and Organizing Committee is headed by the Dean of the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, First Vice-President of the Russian Geographical Society Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nikolai Kasimov.

4th-5th year students, undergraduates, graduate students and young specialists in the field of geography, ecology, tourism and nature management aged 18 to 35 from Russia and neighboring countries are invited to participate in the Summer School.

The first Summer School was held in 2013, and participation in it for many young scientists became an impetus for further professional and personal growth. Thus, the winner of the project competition in the section “Economic, social and medical geography” Ilya Smirnov from Tver in 2014 won a grant from the Russian Geographical Society, which was presented to him by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Society, President of Russia Vladimir Putin. At the same time, from 14 to 16 April 2014, the winner of the First School, Galina Rodko from Novosibirsk, took part in the Russian delegation at the annual international conference of the Association of Geographers of Great Britain. nine0003

The second Summer School was held from 20 to 27 July 2014 at the Cultural and Educational Center “Ethnomir” in the Kaluga region. Its listeners were 35 young scientists from Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. During this time, the guys were able to attend lectures by academicians, professors, famous scientists, famous nature photographers, explorers and travelers. The program of the Summer School turned out to be rich and varied – lectures and debates, master classes and round tables, simulation games and trainings, creative meetings with travelers and photographers, thematic excursions and even city orientation. As a result of one of the master classes, nine students of the school got the opportunity to implement their ideas on environmental education on Lake Baikal as part of the “360 minutes for Baikal” campaign. nine0003

The third Summer School was held at the same site from 23 to 29 August 2015. Its participants were 34 people – students, graduate students and young scientists from Russia and the CIS countries. 34 teachers from different countries of the world spoke to the students of the school. A feature of the III Summer School of the Russian Geographical Society was the participation of a large number of foreign lecturers from France, the USA, Holland, Great Britain and Israel. The educational program included trainings, discussions, creative meetings, master classes, excursions, defense of research projects in three areas: physical geography; ecology and nature management; economic, social and recreational geography. The best project in each category was awarded a diploma and special prizes from the Russian Geographical Society and the Vokrug Sveta magazine. School graduates Tatyana Oberyukhtina and Mikhail Bukovsky took part in the Second All-Russian Youth Meeting of the Russian Geographical Society. In 2016, Tatyana was declared the winner of the RGS grant project competition, proposing to hold a Geographical Olympiad-quest for young people “On de Gennin’s Roads”. nine0003

The fourth Summer School was held from 13 to 21 August 2016. The educational program involved 34 students and 33 teachers from around the world. The organizers of the Summer School have prepared a rich scientific and cultural program for its participants. It included theoretical classes, master classes, interactive games, brain rings, quests. The program was devoted to physical and economic geography, as well as tourism, ecology and other related disciplines. The closing ceremony of the summer school on the evening of August 20 was much more like a theatrical skit than the end of a scientific conference. “This is not only intensive scientific studies, but also the beginning of a wonderful friendship,” the guys agreed. nine0003

The Fifth Summer School returned to “Ethnomir” from 19 to 26 August 2017, the main theme of which was environmental protection. During the week, 35 geographers from Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus were able to gain knowledge about the environmental problems of our time and the environmental situation in the regions of Russia, about modern trends and technologies in the field of ecology and environmental protection, about domestic research and achievements in geography, ecology and related sciences . The program included master classes, trainings, film screenings, excursions, intellectual games, practical exercises, lectures by leading experts and scientists, as well as meetings with famous travelers and media representatives. So, for example, the participants of the Summer School – 2017 met with the editor and producer of the film “Polar Brotherhood”, the captain of the team of the club “What? Where? When?” Elena Potanina, executive producer, director of RD Studio LLC Kristina Kozlova and documentary filmmaker, author of films about Antarctica Olga Stefanova. nine0003

The sixth Summer School “Geography for All” was held from 19 to 26 August 2018 in St. Petersburg. The partner of the event was the St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO). The main theme of the Summer School was the popularization of geography. Young people worked on group projects that were evaluated by a professional jury. As part of the Summer School of the Russian Geographical Society, the children attended creative meetings with public figures, journalists, photographers, travelers, TV presenters, lectures by famous scientists, trainings, master classes, geographical quests, team games, excursions.